PEOPLE FIRST APPROACH WORKS IN THE CARIBBEAN
March 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CARIBBEAN is a delightful place to live, if you like people. And business reflects this island region's human scale: commercial relationships work better with real personal relationships, cemented with time and emotional investment.
Buying a newspaper usually requires a quick chat with a shopkeeper. It's just good manners.
Business experts and accountants wanting to pedal fixed and detailed reporting and management systems in Caribbean be warned: with commerce so intertwined with people, allow for human inconsistency: treat systems as an ...
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